Books like The Fisherman
Abe, who took up fishing after his wife died, agrees to take Dan, a newly widowed coworker, to Dutchman's Creek in the Catskills, and at a diner on the way the cook tells them the story of the creek.
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Starve Acre
After the death of their young son, a couple at an isolated Yorkshire farmhouse grieve in different ways: she turns to a group of spiritualists, and he digs in the field for the roots of an oak tree from local legend.
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.
The Willows
Two friends canoeing down the Danube make camp on a sandy island among endless willows, and the landscape begins to feel like the border of somewhere else entirely.
Revival
Jamie Morton is six in 1962 when Charles Jacobs, a young minister fascinated by electricity, arrives in his Maine town, and their paths keep crossing over the next fifty years.
Ghost Story
In the small town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men who call themselves the Chowder Society meet to tell ghost stories, and after the strange death of a fifth member, a winter of nightmares tells them that a secret from their youth has come back.
The Hollow Places
Newly divorced, Kara moves in with her uncle above his Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy in a small North Carolina town, and finds a hole in the wall that opens onto somewhere else.
Faerie Tale
The Hastings family moves into an old farmhouse in upstate New York, and the twin boys start meeting something in the woods.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Tim Underhill returns to Millhaven after his sister-in-law's suicide, and finds his fifteen-year-old nephew Mark fixated on an empty house in the neighbourhood with a terrible history.
The Only Good Indians
Ten years after four young Blackfeet men shot a herd of elk on land reserved for their tribe's elders, something from that day begins to track them and their families, and it has been patient.
Handling the Undead
In a Stockholm heatwave, a strange electrical field wakes the city's recently dead, and their families have to decide what to do with them.
The Ritual
Four old university friends, now in their thirties and drifting apart, go hiking in northern Sweden, and when one of them is injured they take a shortcut through ancient forest, where they find a gutted animal hanging in the trees and an abandoned house full of old relics.